Jack Wallen is an award-winning writer for TechRepublic, The New Stack, and Linux New Media. He's covered a variety of topics for over twenty years and is an avid promoter of open source. For more news about Jack Wallen, visit his website jackwallen.com.
Take every precaution necessary to make sure secure shell is protected. Jack Wallen shows you how to easily block specific IP addresses from gaining access to your Linux server.
If you’re wanting to convert an image into text, Google Docs has a powerful Optical Character Recognition feature built right in. Here’s how to make it work.
If you’ve switched from iOS to Android and you need your SMS messages transferred, your best bet is iSMS2Droid. Jack Wallen shows you how to port your messages using the app and an iTunes backup.
If a fear of the command line has prevented you from making use of the more secure sftp, Jack Wallen wants to show you how you can easily connect to that remote server, with a simple file manager.
If you’re looking for a more efficient way to gather network device information on your Linux system, Jack Wallen shows you how to do just that with the nmcli command.
A picture can be worth a thousand words, but with Word Cloud, one hundred words may suffice. Learn how to use this tool and portray your company’s mission statement in one image.
New Mozilla Firefox users might want to know there are more configuration options other than what’s only listed in the Preferences. Jack Wallen introduces you to about:config.